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Examples
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It was a harvest day for the Montego Bay "bumboatmen."
A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" Russell Doubleday 1910
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The eagerness for trade among the bumboatmen, actual and expectant, sometimes becomes a nuisance; in their efforts to be first they form a mob quite beyond the control of the ship, the gangways and channels of which they none the less surround and grab, deaf to all remonstrance by words, however forcible.
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From the number of consumers on board a vessel, even of moderate size, this business is profitable to the small traders who ply it, and who from time immemorial have been known as bumboatmen.
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